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history professor jeffrey roberts about the legacy of the soviet union and the rise of nationalism and a supposedly multicultural europe. geoffrey roberts a professor at university college of course an island thank you very much for being with us today thank you so here in russia there are two dimensionally different takes on stalley some say he was a great guy who won the second world war and he actually gave the country an immense post another state actually he undermined the economy which led to the eventual collapse of the u.s.s.r. what's your take on that when stalin dog winston churchill was reported to have

said that stalin found russia with a wooden well and he left it with atomic bombs and i think that statement sums up stalin's achievement was to modernize the soviet union to urbanize so you can t. dust your license so that you can to build the foundations of a country that was able to withstand the germany in beijing in one nine hundred forty one and go on to where the picture of russia and also the foundations for the post-war rise you to a nuclear superpower you know if russia is still a great country. with an important role to play in the world and enormous potential for the future it's because of the foundations that were laid during stalin's time now having said that of course there could be loss of questions and discussions as to whether or not this modernization of russia had to have been as brutal as it was because of course modernized russia but you know in the post-war russia the pre-war

russia as well but starting was also responsible for the deaths of millions of people so you can never discuss. and about the cost you have a discussion. about time tips about whether or not different courses of action events would have been. perhaps more effective than the ones that are starving starving persued. but nevertheless in the end it's a historical fact that. the soviet union was successfully modernized under stalin albeit one i have a very brutal basis so the cause of the collapse really is to blame on other leaders they came after styling rather that what because that's just teleports my course is that the system that stalin built them which persisted off to his death ok when he died. some are more brutal aspects the system disappeared such as

the mass tara but sensually it was still style the system but i system is a very defective system in many ways and those defects in the end result. in the collapse and also the mentality you know that stalin sort of try to establish and said that you needed the mentality that he left after his death was also to blame for the collapse at the end of the day you know well it depends what kind of mentality you're talking you know stalin was a communist he believed in socialism he believed in a communist utopia he believed in the soviet system he believed that the soviet union was a model for the whole the whole world know one doesn't have to agree with his beliefs for that reason but one has to recognize the power of that region and the power of everything was very very important in the historical development of the sort you before starting with a life and then subsequently because what happens is gold which of comes along and he questions and challenges that traditional soviet self image and attempts to

reform the system inquire radical way and the result of course is the. eventual collapse of the system talking about sterling as a political figure i guess people in the west mostly know him as a man who lacked pressure to win the second world war see here for us at home there is no doubt that we won the war without russia second world war would not have been won are their thoughts in the west about that and how is there a genuine interest actually in the west to really find out about the role of russia and how it really that there were to be one there are people in the west who would want to do more to russia the soviet union's role in winning the second world war well because it's uncomfortable true for them to face up to this whole for a terrier socialist communist regime under this dictator stalin was responsible for

tito to defeat a few of our men and in fact was responsible for as opposed to nazis well the the the those kind of people also tend to have the view that there was no great difference between naziism and communism in the stall in the we're just as bad as each other but i don't think that would be the most prevalent view of the most prevalent view will be one of the would recognise the differences between nazis and communism and the differences between hitler and stalin and hitler was a far more dangerous dictator for the world than starving ever was so i think and i think there is now there is creasing recognition of the soviet role in winning the war and of course there are always people who want to present a different view present a distorted view of the events of the second world war so you are someone who knows a lot about it and who studied stalin you wouldn't say that at this point in the west there is a deficit of knowledge about stalin and his world and russians role in world war

two there's always a deficit of historical knowledge there's deficit of knowledge about the world but not just in the west also in russia a world. but you know i don't think that deficit is to grow. as i said i think there is now a days much much greater recognition of the soviet role in the second recognition of the soviet role in the second world war more recognition than people in russia actually recognize because to what your science moves something the russians royce saying to me why don't they recognize our rolling when the second world war and i was there to actually most. most people do particularly since the end of the cold war during the cold war there was just ideological struggle going on and part that i looked was an effort by western cold warriors to did no i the reality of the soviet role in defeating nazi germany and their western cold war is to the exist and they're still making the same kind of arguments but they're not as widespread

and effective as they used to be yet you would think that people from that war are still alive and the memories of that war are still so fresh you'd think that would learn our lesson but then you see these huge nationalist fret dressing up in europe what's to blame well that that's that's not the extreme right movement in europe ultranationalist in the national journal is not a new phenomenon it's not a recent no it's true that recently. the political influence of national nationals of its very strong particularly the more extreme forms has grown in various countries of europe. i think that has mostly to do with the economic and political problems but europe is. facing at the moment which poses a dollar for it to know the whole future of the european union i feel is also part we've. you know as time goes on the war you know receipts from many memory becomes

a much more distant event and the more time of that says. the more possibilities there offer people to you know present. distorted accounts. of the war so i think it's partly a function of of the distance we've got to travel from war to partly explains. this development of nationalism out for national mixed emotions in europe but then because the moment the main reason it's to do with contemporary politics i know an economics robert that. history now and that's that's not to say that history isn't important of course because there are many many lessons of history which are rather to the contemporary crisis seem relieved face the worst crisis that here are right now is experiencing if that is to last or get worse that will also. but it would also incite that they rise of more national nationalist sentiment i

think there is there is a great danger of that if the eurozone collapses the e.u. collapses the most likely. it is that it will be replaced by different forms of national. questions will forms a national some extreme and dangerous take on herself i think there are great george michael's that's the historical lesson of what happened before the second world war particularly in the nineteen for that is where you had a similar crisis that will be gone from now on the result that pulls the rise of notions of extreme nationalism into your. emotions of a number of forward terror and fascist. regime so that's the lesson there is the historical lesson there is that there is a great danger of that development i don't see is by any means being. simple i think the difference between now and then is that democratic culture democratic

institutions are much stronger in europe than they were before the second world war so i'm confident i'm hopeful that european democracy can subodh its current crisis do you think talking about democratic institutions to think that a politician with anti-democratic views could rise to power through those democratic institutes but that that's exactly what happened in the case of hitler didn't it and that's what happened in a number of other countries in europe but before and all through the second world war so it's it's a distinct possibility that it will be a challenge it will be a test of western democracy not just western democracy but european international democracy kind of if you survive the challenge of a kind of nationals in which chemicals for all life in conditions of economic collapse and political disorder could stick. and together as a united europe maybe work as a magic pushing against president. i don't think it's a part of the c.e.o.

. but i sincerely hope that the european union doesn't collapse because for all its faults the european union and what it represents is much much better than the ultra nationalist. alternative. who knows what's going to happen. i think it's possible the european union will survive and i hope it does support and if i were russian if i would russians i would actually be hoping that's the case as well because the collapse of the e.u. on the rise of extreme forms of nationalism in europe is going could pose the question if you can challenge for russia to search effort roberts thank you very much for this interview.

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hello there all the ladies from the sporting world here see thanks for joining us they start coming out in the pulitzer. winning start russian premier league title houses is in its in the eighty's to victory over in their opening clash of the new season. fighting feat r.t. sits down for a talk with one of the greatest boxes of his generation vitali. out of his next heavyweight question which takes place in september. and lead a russian. claims he's the first victory of this year's cliff diving world championships in portugal. so let's start with football and the opening weekend of action in the russian premier league defending champions is in eight getting off to winning start with a one sided victory on sunday new russia head coach fabio capello was an interested

spectator at petrowski stadium and the telly and got to see some neat into play in the build up to the opening go i looks on the coffin with a great finish there similar free flowing movement see the home side of what it pouncey on the mark after said b.c. mark was felt in the box claiming he's brace from this sport is in it to know when is and looking every inch deserving title holders. things started badly for guus hiddink side. needed only forty five seconds to open the scoring deflected off on g.'s defend. and looked over capable dinner a good ball of into the net thirty minutes later got an equaliser after some strong pressure and of the first half ivorian striker last seen it scored in his debut game. for them which side against his former club and proved to be the winner. while chris evert of. terror courageous to a one all draw

a leg of an off putting the grozny side in front after fifty six minutes he scored with a long shot that keeper together and call shot a hand on but was unable to save it for eight minutes before the final whistle the head of terrorists defend adelson in the palace area forward. parity and it. finished. and there was more there's one more match in the opening game we've shared before monday night former champions visiting f.c. and. cycling great britain has its first ever to de france champion bradley wiggins did what he needed to the final day essentially not to crash to keep hold of the yellow jersey and win the entire race the belgian born brits and blew away the field during said day's time trial to wrap up victory on sunday he would reach the

are trying to finish line in pelton vast and one hundred nine year wait for. ryder mark cavendish won the one hundred twenty kilometer stage while yet another cyclist from the squad chris froome secured second place overall. it's been a fantastic. nineteen weeks. of brierley. freeze virtually. no athletes are already starting to arrive at the olympic village in london with the games due to get underway in four days correspondent richard is there to see how things are shaping up. seven years of planning almost coming to an end for london. and let's make a week the city will hold the world's biggest sporting events preparations are being taken very seriously everywhere you go there are security checkpoints which make

the village look more like an airport however once inside the athletes are in for real treats accommodation has been billed for the ten thousand competitors and officials and these buildings we put to good use once the games are under paralympics are finished the world will enjoy our olympics and you know i'm not going to in any way to deprecate what happened in in beijing because it was a great olympic games in beijing but i think what we will do is get our own ingenious way without spending quite so much money on fireworks i think we will have the best ever olympic games the athletes will have everything we could possibly need on besides there's a massive dining hall which can see tens of thousands of people all in keeping with london's multiculturalism there is food on offer from almost every corner of the planet's the main reason we have here of course is to win medals and that is certainly being catered for there's a large team available as well as

a medical center to cater for anything from a common cold to a muscle strain living conditions may not resemble a five star hotel which some of the athletes are more used to however there are very comfortable number less and the thousands of competitors will enjoy these fantastic surroundings when the games eventually get underway on the twenty seventh of july richard bump or fleet anti london. morning on. the latest trick and in that place finish third stage of the cliff diving world seriously a twenty eight year old rushing getting the better of top ranking rivals kerry hunt and a londoner decay of a has a festival of the season the ever innovative thinker executing a back on stand with a blood entry to win by the slim. of margins in the final taking the victory by just one tenth of a point overall lead to hunt had to settle for third place behind to care but still

how ten point advantage over his colombian rival two thousand and six world champ and still have to hundred fifty points behind and despite picking up pace placed podium finish of the season. in golf or els has won the open championship at royal lytham and st annes after finishing seven and it's the second open victory for the south african going into the last day its main rival adam scott failed to haue his final part and take it to a playoff the australian eventually finished second with six and pre-tournament favorite american tiger woods came home enjoying a third place with competitor brant celek out with three and. just. you know this week you know. my wife's been telling me do you believe in myself no believe in me basically you know i mean everybody else believes that you

can do it you can as dog days of them and i just you know feel good all week for some reason. is that in a nice photo you're still the same with the other minus six or so. exchange. but finally boxing where our team managed to catch up with heavyweight great vitali klitschko on a visit to moscow this week the w.b.c. world champ and a set to defend his crown against my no child of germany in the russian capital on the eighth of september and that's what the four two on iraq talked about first. he doesn't have a big name but young. skills boxing skills. he should do performance in this fight and it will be big step up to build a new name a new name i was wrong. so i'm very proud to have the same title the same

belt what have many years ago that excludes mike tyson mohammed ali and give my best to defend the title and forward but i am strong as all. very good fighters have been skills but. he have chose to fight like twice and i think he's management. bloke came because they seemed like santa can loose he's career loose he's title against a lot differently very interesting fight what is. good question not for me not for who are good question for something if he would do if they're put in the want to fight the school anytime we already.

emotions produce mistakes. and that's why. vet why you have to be very cool who had to harp inside the ring no emotions. with emotions you can lose. or the world just or he really really really did better as a war and maybe wall championed by. we don't want to. use the same talking skills in suppressing various forms of white. we stroll of white let's talk feast and. i will use those here just for last weekend. against charles and

actually it was a fight between two police cruisers who is the stronger one and that he sure he's a strong lou loser. alright no he started to attack me but to be honest right now. it's a temper eight we discuss with david haye to make a fight in moscow they'd hate make a decision to fight a sword. ok up to date now they're back into ice time here not to with a more sports news from around the globe bye for now.

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